Suburban farms

An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about the phenomenon of "front-yard farmers," people who use their suburban homes as farms (and make money from what they grow).

Unlike traditional home gardeners who devote a corner of the yard to a few rows of vegetables, a new crop of minifarmers is tearing up the whole yard and planting foods such as arugula and kohlrabi that restaurants might want to buy. [...]

"Agriculture is becoming more and more suburban," says Roxanne Christensen, publisher of Spin-Farming LLC, a Philadelphia company started in 2005 that sells guides and holds seminars teaching a small-scale farming technique..."Land is very expensive in the country, so people are saying, 'why not just start growing in the backyard?' "